This book is the third in a series of collective monographs of a research team working in the framework of the Laboratory of Historical, Social and Cultural Anthropology and the seminar "Spatial and Master Aspects of Culture." All these books are united by a common theme ("Interpretation of cultural codes"); their basis is the work of the permanent members of the LISKA group, developing a set of hypotheses in the field of anthropology, art history and comparative literature, which is called the "spatial-master approach." In addition, the book includes a number of methodologically and thematically close works of authors who hitherto did not directly participate in the work of the group.